Item #B6451 ATLAS CHINENSIS: // Being a Second Part of // A RELATION // OF // Remarkable Passages // IN TWO // EMBASSIES // FROM THE // East-India Company // OF THE // UNITED PROVINCES, // TO THE VICE-ROY // SINGLAMONG // AND GENERAL // TAISING LIPOVI, // AND TO // KONCHI, // EMPEROR OF // China and East-Tartary. // ... // LONDON, // ...Tho. Johnson ...// ... M.DC.LXXI. John Ogilby, Johannes Nieuhof, Arnoldus Montanus, c.
ATLAS CHINENSIS: // Being a Second Part of // A RELATION // OF // Remarkable Passages // IN TWO // EMBASSIES // FROM THE // East-India Company // OF THE // UNITED PROVINCES, // TO THE VICE-ROY // SINGLAMONG // AND GENERAL // TAISING LIPOVI, // AND TO // KONCHI, // EMPEROR OF // China and East-Tartary. // ... // LONDON, // ...Tho. Johnson ...// ... M.DC.LXXI.
ATLAS CHINENSIS: // Being a Second Part of // A RELATION // OF // Remarkable Passages // IN TWO // EMBASSIES // FROM THE // East-India Company // OF THE // UNITED PROVINCES, // TO THE VICE-ROY // SINGLAMONG // AND GENERAL // TAISING LIPOVI, // AND TO // KONCHI, // EMPEROR OF // China and East-Tartary. // ... // LONDON, // ...Tho. Johnson ...// ... M.DC.LXXI.
ATLAS CHINENSIS: // Being a Second Part of // A RELATION // OF // Remarkable Passages // IN TWO // EMBASSIES // FROM THE // East-India Company // OF THE // UNITED PROVINCES, // TO THE VICE-ROY // SINGLAMONG // AND GENERAL // TAISING LIPOVI, // AND TO // KONCHI, // EMPEROR OF // China and East-Tartary. // ... // LONDON, // ...Tho. Johnson ...// ... M.DC.LXXI.
ATLAS CHINENSIS: // Being a Second Part of // A RELATION // OF // Remarkable Passages // IN TWO // EMBASSIES // FROM THE // East-India Company // OF THE // UNITED PROVINCES, // TO THE VICE-ROY // SINGLAMONG // AND GENERAL // TAISING LIPOVI, // AND TO // KONCHI, // EMPEROR OF // China and East-Tartary. // ... // LONDON, // ...Tho. Johnson ...// ... M.DC.LXXI.
ATLAS CHINENSIS: // Being a Second Part of // A RELATION // OF // Remarkable Passages // IN TWO // EMBASSIES // FROM THE // East-India Company // OF THE // UNITED PROVINCES, // TO THE VICE-ROY // SINGLAMONG // AND GENERAL // TAISING LIPOVI, // AND TO // KONCHI, // EMPEROR OF // China and East-Tartary. // ... // LONDON, // ...Tho. Johnson ...// ... M.DC.LXXI.

ATLAS CHINENSIS: // Being a Second Part of // A RELATION // OF // Remarkable Passages // IN TWO // EMBASSIES // FROM THE // East-India Company // OF THE // UNITED PROVINCES, // TO THE VICE-ROY // SINGLAMONG // AND GENERAL // TAISING LIPOVI, // AND TO // KONCHI, // EMPEROR OF // China and East-Tartary. // ... // LONDON, // ...Tho. Johnson ...// ... M.DC.LXXI.

London: Tho. Johnson, printer for the author. 1671. Edition: Third Edition., Binding: contemporary full brown calf, rebacked expertly, spine with 5 raised bands, title in gilt on two, spine compartments with decorative gilt motifs and ruling, marbled endpapers.

, Notes: This work on China, the Emperor of China, Formosa (Island) and East-Tartary, highlights an extensive journey through provinces of Fokien, Chekiang, Xantung, and Nanking, to Peking with its imperial court, orders for the travellors, feasts, i.e. marriages and funerals. The administration of government, architecture and engineering of structures, incl. pagodas or temples, arches, palaces is described; followed by land- and waterways, shipping, rivers, channels, mountains, hills, springs and valleys; flora and fauna, conditions for farming/ planting and husbandry; weapons, clothing, culture, the character and languages of the Chinese.

, Size: Folio (395 x 240 mm), , Illustration: Illustrated engraved title frontispiece depicting Chinese figures and title “The // SECOND & THIRD // EMBASSIE // to ye. // EMPIRE // of // TAYSING or CHINA. // with Previledge // A° 1671.”; red and black ink title; decorative headpiece with rubricated initial at each chapter opening [of pp. 1, 111, 203, 263, 459]; also a tail piece on the final leaf. 57 in-text illustrations, plus inserts of thirty-eight (38) large engraved plates; of the latter 31 are double page plates, one is a quadruple page panorama, and 6 are single page plates.
The folding map of China by Nieuhof is hand coloured. The third edition does not have the dedication to Prince Charles II and portrait of Ogilby.

Mis-paginations at 340 as 348, 341 as 349, 448 as 350, 564 as 565, 565 as 564, 598 as 594, 691 as 661.

, References: Cordier, Sinaca 2349; Lust 525; ESTC R5629; Wing D242 , Pages: Pp: Engraved frontis title, red and black ink title, 1-723, bl., [38ill.], Category: Book Voyages General; Book Asia Far East. A fine and handsome example, plates are clean and crisp. Item #B6451

Edition: Third Edition., Binding: contemporary full brown calf, rebacked expertly, spine with 5 raised bands, title in gilt on two, spine compartments with decorative gilt motifs and ruling, marbled endpapers.

, Notes: This work on China, the Emperor of China, Formosa (Island) and East-Tartary, highlights an extensive journey through provinces of Fokien, Chekiang, Xantung, and Nanking, to Peking with its imperial court, orders for the travellors, feasts, i.e. marriages and funerals. The administration of government, architecture and engineering of structures, incl. pagodas or temples, arches, palaces is described; followed by land- and waterways, shipping, rivers, channels, mountains, hills, springs and valleys; flora and fauna, conditions for farming/ planting and husbandry; weapons, clothing, culture, the character and languages of the Chinese.

, Size: Folio (395 x 240 mm), , Illustration: Illustrated engraved title frontispiece depicting Chinese figures and title “The // SECOND & THIRD // EMBASSIE // to ye. // EMPIRE // of // TAYSING or CHINA. // with Previledge // A° 1671.”; red and black ink title; decorative headpiece with rubricated initial at each chapter opening [of pp. 1, 111, 203, 263, 459]; also a tail piece on the final leaf. 57 in-text illustrations, plus inserts of thirty-eight (38) large engraved plates; of the latter 31 are double page plates, one is a quadruple page panorama, and 6 are single page plates.
The folding map of China by Nieuhof is hand coloured. The third edition does not have the dedication to Prince Charles II and portrait of Ogilby.

Mis-paginations at 340 as 348, 341 as 349, 448 as 350, 564 as 565, 565 as 564, 598 as 594, 691 as 661.

, References: Cordier, Sinaca 2349; Lust 525; ESTC R5629; Wing D242 , Pages: Pp: Engraved frontis title, red and black ink title, 1-723, bl., [38ill.], Category: Book Voyages General; Book Asia Far East.

Price: $12,000.00

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